Year
2026
Language
English

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Ghosts passed through the cottage sitting on the peak of Townsend Hill like passengers in a train station. Some, Teddy Ingram knew, stayed longer than others.

More than half a year has passed since the disappearance of Gemma Eakley and Teddy Ingram still has no clue as to whether she is alive, dead or something worse. With Gemma's young daughter left in his care Teddy haunts the rural haven of Townsend like one of its many spirits.

But then Aurelia – his beloved ex-rival – returns with the news that her own mother is dead – and a ghost forms from the pages of her farewell to give the would-be lovers a message: They won't let me rest.

One coven's efforts to reverse the looming extinction of witches involves resurrecting the dead. Meredith's old coven wants to know what secrets she took with her to the funeral pyre; did she have the key to fixing their botched attempts at necromancy?

From the acclaimed author of Modern Divination comes the dark and magical concluding part of the Spells for Life and Death duology. The spellbinding second book in the Spells for Life and Death duology from Isabel Agajanian, and sequel to Modern Divination. Isabel Agajanian (they/them) is a writer and illustrator living in the United States. Raised in California and spirited away to Florida, then Oregon, Isabel is never writing in one place for too long. They are joined in their pursuit of good stories by a hefty grey cat named Mosse and at least one roommate at a time. Modern Divination is their first published novel at the crux of a hundred unpublished stories.
"Lush and atmospheric, full of magic and yearning" -Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six on Modern Divination

"Stylish, moody, with an atmosphere thick enough to drown in . . . the cosy contemporary fantasy of my dreams" -Ava Reid, New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning on Modern Divination

"High stakes, deft romance and intriguing magic . . . a gem of a book" -Hannah Whitten on Modern Divination

"Cosy like a favourite sweater and thick with atmosphere like fog on a winter night . . . Utterly magical" -Allison Saft, New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic on Modern DIvination

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"Lush and atmospheric, full of magic and yearning"
Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six on Modern Divination
"Stylish, moody, with an atmosphere thick enough to drown in . . . the cosy contemporary fantasy of my dreams"
Ava Reid, New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning on Modern Divination
"High stakes, deft romance and intriguing magic . . . a gem of a book"
Hannah Whitten on Modern Divination

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